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Show Me Something. April...2014

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, April 11, 2014 10:34 AM

Carl, actually, the BL-2 is an EMD product; BL meaning branchline road diesel. It basically is an F unit with a modified car body allowing a view to the rear for switching. It was not too popular, BAR had a number of them and, along with their F3s, kept them running into the 1970s and 80s.

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, April 12, 2014 7:17 AM

No SW-1?  Show me a team track!

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, April 12, 2014 8:26 AM

Here is a team track scene:

Show me another team track.

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Posted by superbe on Sunday, April 13, 2014 2:18 PM

Posting is kind of slow so I'm going back to a switcher, EMD SW 7, I believe. Been working on this area for the last .........

Show us anything you like.

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Posted by bogp40 on Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:41 PM

Here is a granite stone cutting facility, ironically the supplying quarry is still under construction!

Show me a "finished" quarry

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, April 14, 2014 11:18 AM

This is the limestone quarry supplying the Dragon Products cement plant on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me a coal mine

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Posted by bogp40 on Monday, April 14, 2014 1:35 PM

G Paine

This is the limestone quarry supplying the Dragon Products cement plant on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me a coal mine

 

Nice!, the scenery guy doing our's may need to check out this, what material did you use within the quarry? (Hydrocal, scultamold or carved painted foam)

And back to George's request for a coal mine.

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, April 14, 2014 3:29 PM

Hudson Coal Mine..

Show me this same coal mine (Walther's kit) on your layout.

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, April 14, 2014 3:42 PM

bogp40, Dana Evert who did the work stated by photographing the Dragon Prodcuts limestone quarry in Thomaston, ME; about 40 miles from us. Using the photos, he made a base from styrofoam insulation board, and covered it with hydrocal which he applied with a putty knife and an artists spatula, then carved and colored it with various washes.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Monday, April 14, 2014 10:16 PM

jacon12
Show me this same coal mine (Walther's kit) on your layout

There isn't any spectacular surrounding rockwork like yours, but here it is:

Show me any Walther's "Cornerstone" industry on your layout

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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 6:51 AM

Here are some Walthers Cornerstone Modulars.   Show me another Walthers Cornerstone.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:44 AM

Here you go, not on but two Cornerstone buildings. Jim's Repair Shop (Center) and Merchant's Row II (Right). Also pictured is Model Power's Railroad Hotel kit. Let's see some Model Power structures.

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:07 AM

It has been almost a day, all I can come up with on my layout are a couple of modified Model Power structures

The white tanks on the left side of Country Kitchen bakery are grain bins that I am modeling as tanks for cooking oil and molasses (bring on the molasses dounuts!)

Also, the gravel loader is a modified rural coal tipple

Show me the largest structure on your layout

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 9:51 PM

G Paine
Show me the largest structure on your layout

My blast furnace:

Show me another large structure

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, April 17, 2014 8:09 AM

Ken .. That is an impressive blast furnace. 

Here is a large flour mill behind the special passneger train in the foreground. 

 

Please show a bridge or a trestle. 

 

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, April 17, 2014 3:01 PM

A cut stone bridge over Stoney Creek. DJ.

Show me an over the road truck.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:12 PM

Thanx for the kind words Garry!Chef

Still looking for an OTR truck...

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Thursday, April 17, 2014 9:53 PM

Here you go, one over the road truck. Stick out tongue Let's see another over the road truck.

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, April 18, 2014 9:52 AM

A Dragon Products dry bulk cememt truck. The trailer started as a Road Champs bottom dump trailer which I modified with some parts and a lot of body putty.

More over the road trucks please

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Friday, April 18, 2014 9:39 PM

G Paine
More over the road trucks please

Here is a dry bulk cement trailer I scratchbuilt 2 years ago, hooked up to an Athearn Mack model 'R' tractor.  This is the kind of cement-hauling trailers I see all over the State of Maryland. There are a few cylinder-shaped ones here too, but most of them are of the triple-hopper design.

I didn't have a scenicked layout at the time I shot this pic so this was the best I could offer...

Show me another over-the-road truck

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Posted by SWFX on Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:15 AM

CSX_road_slug -wow, great work

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:37 AM

Here are a couple over the road trucks:

The tractors and trailers are store bought. The sideboards and tarp on the truck in the foreground are hand made. The load is finely ground corn meal held in place with white glue. The license plates and signs were made with my home computer. The figures are Woodland Scenics.

How about another over the road truck?

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:59 AM

GP9 Man .... Funny! Laugh

Here is my Great Northern tractor/trailer

 

And here is Fiasco Transport tractor/trailer in trouble. 

 

 

Please show another truck, or a bus, or a car... 

 

 

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, April 19, 2014 9:54 PM

Car and a truck..

Show me something yellow.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Sunday, April 20, 2014 9:41 AM

Here's five yellow somethings. The Awnings on the trailer, the forklift and the trck bumper. Show me something red.

 

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Posted by Phoebe Vet on Sunday, April 20, 2014 10:54 AM

Something red, as requested.

Show me an Easter Bunny, if you can keep the Lion from eating it.

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, April 20, 2014 11:34 AM

Easter Bunnies!

Show me more Easter.........?

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Posted by bigpianoguy on Sunday, April 20, 2014 6:19 PM

Wish I could show you something, but I'm just installing isolation tracks & soldering the yard track today. Being 4/20, I told friends & family I was taking the day off & getting wired.

I don't think I fooled anyone, though...

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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Sunday, April 20, 2014 6:36 PM

That's very funny bigpianoguy. I had a chocolate Easter bunny but.........Big Smile

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Monday, April 21, 2014 1:06 PM

Since it has been 24 hours, here is a completely ficticious passenger car with a complete ficticious history

"In the late 1950's the Pennsylvania Railroad purchased a brand new type of car for it's crack train the Mon Valley rambler.  This train had a baggage car, two heavyweight coaches, a combine/snack car(in the baggage area).  The PRR felt like the higher class passengers deserved a car that would let them see the Mon Valley through a rear window.  Thus the "Uniontown" was purchased.  The Mon Valley Rambler ran until 1967, and the Theater car was stored on a siding at Pittsburgh's PRR station, until Penn Central auctioned it off, and it was purchased by the Austinville and Dynamite city Railroad owner-James Thaddius.

 SShow me another complete work of fantasy,and the fictional history behind it.

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